U.S. zoos sent millions of dollars to China to help protect wild pandas. But the Chinese government instead spent the money on apartment buildings, roads, computers, museums and other expenses, a New York Times investigation found.
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Meanwhile, my neiborghood in Miami is still using septic tanks because there's not federal funds to connect our homes plumbing to the county sewer in Miami-Dade.
It’s time to end development aid for a country like China, which belongs to the strongest economies worldwide. There are other countries who need such help much more. If help is diverted there, it’s less likely that it will be spend for purposes it was not intended for.
Lots of replies in here seem to think this was taxpayer money or otherwise federal funds. These were donations but there was US Govt oversight which is the real failure. Let's just stop implying that money should have been spent on this or that. Blame the donors.
Well at least they actually built something! Unlike the $Bthe US sends to the African nations. Developing nations @COP29 Baku, Azerbaijan, asking for $1.3T <— For their corrupt regimes so they can send their kids to Europe & the US and to buy mansions with ofc🙌🏼 let’s shine a spotlight on this issue.
The Chinese don't give a shit about animal conservation, they manage to find away to turn pandas into a commodity and the only thing saving the pandas from a life of misery in a bear bile farm is the fact they can make a buck out of them in other ways.
What did you expect? We threaten them constantly with tariffs and trade and then wanna "help" animals. This is like when your MAGA uncle shows up to Thanksgiving after telling the entire family they are a bunch of communists and baby killers and then expecting pie.
Explain the part where we sent money to a wealthy country that we owe $859.4 billion. I asked the same question about the billions we sent to Egypt. What am I missing?
Why is it related to china or totalitarianism when it is the American government can't be accountable? There are millions of examples that America government waste it's money on western country or home, is it also because of china bad?
Ngl I’d rather spend money on shit that’s useful. What’s a panda ever going to do for me? Not even being funny they ain’t gonna do shit for me but sit there looking cute af eating bamboo and not doing a gotdamn thing 😂
Is that the same China whose goods are overflowing in US stores? The same China that US companies outsource labor and production to (vs US labor)? The same China, that with Americans help, has shuttered Main Street businesses (and populated Bezo’s stores)? Just not sure why US zoos would do that.
It's unbelievable. I wonder whether those monkeys in the U.S. zoos made such idiotic decisions as sending money to the most corrupt country to help pandas. If you want to help pandas in China, please send bamboo because the Chinese government can’t eat pandas' food.
Of course they did. Never give A SINGLE RED CENT to any country without some form of accountability. Look what happened to all the arms and money we pissed away in Ukraine.
You mean China lied? I'm shocked! Shocked. Anyone who has listened to China's proclamations over the years knows that China is allergic to telling the truth about pretty much anything.
No wonder they are reeling from nonstop and wide spread revenge against society attacks.
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No, wait... Not at all.
Making Communist totalitarian regimes and their tyrannical kleptocracy rich for decades.
I will let myself out.
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This just took millions away from Zoos.
No wonder they are reeling from nonstop and wide spread revenge against society attacks.
#stupid